Top 90 Hugh Hefner Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.”

— Hugh Hefner

52. “My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.”

— Hugh Hefner

53. “I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.”

— Hugh Hefner

54. “It’s hard to really compare new love and old love.”

— Hugh Hefner

55. “The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.”

— Hugh Hefner

56. “Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I’m on a roll second to none.”

— Hugh Hefner

57. “Did you know that I almost called the magazine Stag Party and the symbol was originally going to be a stag? I changed my mind just before we went to press, thank God. Somehow, it wouldn’t have been the same. Can you imagine a chain of key clubs staffed by beautiful girls wearing antlers?”

— Hugh Hefner

58. “The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.”

— Hugh Hefner

59. “I’m actually a very moral guy.”

— Hugh Hefner

60. “Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don’t think so.”

— Hugh Hefner

61. “There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn’t married. You have to keep your hand in.”

— Hugh Hefner

62. “For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there’s no getting over it.”

— Hugh Hefner

63. “The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.”

— Hugh Hefner

64. “As Ray Bradbury – a longtime contributor to Playboy – said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they’re talking about the contents of the magazine, they don’t see the forest. People don’t see the other part of my life because they’re too fascinated with the girls.”

— Hugh Hefner

65. “I felt quite frankly having been raised during the depression and looking back at the roaring twenties, the jazz age, which was a very magic timer in my mind because it was something that I had missed.”

— Hugh Hefner

66. “If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”

— Hugh Hefner

67. “I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn’t have the wonderful children I have if I didn’t get married.”

— Hugh Hefner

68. “I guess I’m the most successful man I know. I wouldn’t trade places with anybody in the world.”

— Hugh Hefner

69. “I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude.”

— Hugh Hefner

70. “My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I’m grateful.”

— Hugh Hefner

71. “I always say now that I’m in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.”

— Hugh Hefner

72. “I don’t have dinner parties – I eat my dinner in bed.”

— Hugh Hefner

73. “I was a very idealistic, very romantic kid in a very typically Midwestern Methodist repressed home. There was no show of affection of any kind, and I escaped to dreams and fantasies produced, by and large, by the music and the movies of the ’30s.”

— Hugh Hefner

74. “I’ve had death threats, but I’ve never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the ’60s.”

— Hugh Hefner

75. “I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I’ve dated nothing but a succession of blondes.”

— Hugh Hefner

76. “The business end of business has never interested me.”

— Hugh Hefner

77. “I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.”

— Hugh Hefner

78. “We have a tremendous opportunity to try to start solving some of our overwhelming problems with population related environment, related to the hatred that exists between countries and religions, so we have a tremendous opportunity, but the dangers are very clearly there.”

— Hugh Hefner

79. “I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.”

— Hugh Hefner

80. “There’s always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment.”

— Hugh Hefner

81. “I’m not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I’ve been doing the best I can.”

— Hugh Hefner

82. “Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.”

— Hugh Hefner

83. “For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.”

— Hugh Hefner

84. “My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards – but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.”

— Hugh Hefner

85. “Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles.”

— Hugh Hefner

86. “I guess you could say, I’m just a typical Methodist kid at heart.”

— Hugh Hefner

87. “At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.”

— Hugh Hefner

88. “I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I’m secure and happy in that.”

— Hugh Hefner

89. “I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.”

— Hugh Hefner

90. “One of the things I’ve tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I’m not suggesting that everybody should have three girlfriends, or necessarily have girlfriends living with them. I think there are many, many options to living your life.”

— Hugh Hefner

91. “I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn’t be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.”

— Hugh Hefner

92. “I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend.”

— Hugh Hefner

93. “The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.”

— Hugh Hefner

94. “I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I’m planning on another quarter century.”

— Hugh Hefner

95. “The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people.”

— Hugh Hefner

96. “If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don’t really probe their motivations. Call me shallow.”

— Hugh Hefner